The 2019 Submarine Cable Map

Drum gyre delight ... the 2019 Telegeography Submarine Cable Map has arrived. Every yr Telegeography releases a novel updated version of its map of the global network of undersea telecommunications cables. This year's map highlights the huge recent edifice nail inwards submarine cables. This nail volition come across inwards the side past times side few years roughly 107 novel submarine cables beingness set roughly the world, adding over 400,000 kilometers of novel telecommunications cable to the global network.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lay out of information insets along the bottom of the 2019 map aid explicate this novel edifice boom. These include insets showing novel countries which volition shortly endure connected for the get-go fourth dimension in addition to the total of novel cables beingness set inwards the dissimilar global regions. Content providers, such equally Google, Amazon, Facebook in addition to Microsoft, are investing in addition to driving much of this novel edifice nail inwards submarine cables. An inset for each of these companies shows where each companionship is driving the construction inwards novel submarine cable infrastructure.

You tin nevertheless stance previous versions of Telegeography's Submarine Cable maps. Here is Telegrogaphy's 2018 Submarine Cable Map. If you lot desire to stance the maps from previous years you lot tin merely alter the yr inwards the URL. For example, 1 of my favorite Telegeography maps tin endure constitute at http://submarine-cable-map-2015.telegeography.com/. This 2015 map was inspired past times medieval in addition to renaissance cartography in addition to features non exclusively a vintage map agency but body of body of water monsters, cartouches in addition to map edge illustrations.